Trillions of cicadas, underground for the last 17 years, have emerged in numerous eastern and midwestern states to spend a few days above ground climbing onto trees and walls, mating and making a wonderful ruckus.
This start-up turns locust swarms in Kenya into animal feed
When Musician Miya Masaoka tours she often sits in her hotel room for hours, watching her musical collaborators interact. Her collaborators are Madagascar hissing cockroaches. She has another composition that she performs with a chorus of bees. Produced by Michael Raphael.
They’re possibly the most misunderstood creatures in the animal kingdom, but a recently published book is providing new insight into the fascinating world of flies.
In Germany, flying insects are disappearing at a rapid rate
“It’s not just one species, it seems there’s basically a kind of wholesale collapse of wild insects,” says Dave Goulson, a co-author of a new study published in the online journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday.
Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’
